History · 9 · Daughter Zion

Babylon's chronicle hid its humiliation

Sennacherib devastated Babylon and carried off Marduk's statue. Babylonian scribes recorded only that the city was captured.

The defeated often downplay their losses.

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The destruction and deportation of the god's image passed in complete silence.

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 147

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